FLYP Magazine looks at Detroit’s potential rise from the ashes

FLYP Magazine dives into Detroit and where it can go.Excerpt:She sees the same thing happening in Akron and Oakland and Milwaukee and buffalo – a transition she calls, “as far-reaching as the one from hunting and gathering 11,000 years ago to agriculture. And from agriculture to industry 300 years ago.”A political activist since the 1930s, she has no illusion that the transition will be easy. But, like her husband, she does not think progress can depend on help from on high or outside, whether from President Barack Obama or anybody else.”We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for,” she says.Neither Boggs, nor the many other young and old activist who are trying to remake Detroit, pretend that utopia is at hand. But in the depths of post-industrial blight, they’re finding reasons for hope.Read the entire article here.